Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 13, 1915, Page 7

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Critical folk said she could die with a happy consciousness that she must have advocated the right things at least half her time, since she had a habit of believing everything—and going about pro-, claiming her belief of the time, Just now she was ardent for suf- frage. Militancy seemed to her the finest thing in the world, a flame of pure martyr enthusiasm which was bound to lighten the world. Yet— that persigtent Harleth had dared to laugh of her eulogies of window | breaking instead of being converted to &llem‘_.. It was infolerable. She flust Somehow punish him, even if she had to go to the length of cap- tivating him. He deserved no less. Then, too, might it not be possible thus to win him over to the cause? Mentally she took stock of herself. She was still very beautiful, if a bit full-blown; she had fortune, position, the prestige of family. And though she had openly vowed herself to the cause, if she could win it so eloquent an advocate by the sacrifice of her liberty, it was clearly her duty to do it. Votes for women might look dif- ferently to him through the vista of LL zing Plant CITY GARRGE ¥##44¢ ulcani Dn*al Work odern Dentistry Copital Stock$10,000.00 vour friends and tell them o did it. We are proud of erv piece of our work and will dlv stand back of it. it will Improve Your Looks bnderfully to have at little | a wedding ring. And it should be a ctry work done, and this|yel'ow wedding. On that she declded iter ought not to be delayed instantly—with girl ushers and twenty bridesmaids at least. The parson v longer. Painless extractor| g,q have to be masculine. He teeth. must at least be a bishop; and the " . odious masculine injustice kept wom- xtraction of Teetg{w“h C;‘as. en from that high dignity. Yet, on Lady Attendant Afternoons |ihe whole, she was quite reconciled to the bishop—he would give the All work guaranteed to be need accent of contrast and so en- riect. hance the distinction of it all. Evenings and Sundays by ap-| Certainly a strategist or diplomat in\t;enfs of the first water was smothered in T 5 her by petticoats. She had come to Highview, Harleth’s aristocratic home suburb, to stay but a day and night. Yet she so managed matters that she appeared to be constrained against Dr. W. H. Mitchell’s Painless Dental Office @0 10 less than invite ber to every- | as it could be made. But to one aft- | game she stayed. What she saw de- | In Highview. Next she waved her hair, and after that she took her ! convert her than to take Harleth cap- | them meekly, j being a fool in some things, !a gentleman, also helpless—being a | tical. i her before the party. Notwithstand- MAKING A SCANDAL By MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD- termined her to do several things. RIDGE. | She ordered in haste, from the city, H two frocks quite eclipsing anything thing. More than half the time she ayed away, or rather went home after seeing everything was as good ernoon company rather early in the (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) “Evidence—in-con-tro-vert-ible _evi- | dence!” pronounced Mrs. Maria Pres- cott, village gossip and busybody. “My!"” 3 “You don't think—" began prelty; Althea Lind, bride of less than a year. | “That your husband is up to some- thing—decidedly! My dear, tell me all 1 about it in detail. 1 had a husband once myself. I've had experience. I' can be helpful.” | Truly helpful as scandal-monger | and meddler had the prying trouble ! maker been ever since her husband had run away from her. Innocent, in- experienced Althea little knew the ' ogre she was. Poor Althea longed for ' sympathy and needed advice. 'Mld“ tears she now faltered out her wretch- ed story. “Arthur has been so good and kind,” | she sobbed. “Lately, though, he seems to be more—absorbed, I think I must | call it.” “Getting tired of wedded bliss— that’s the men all over!” snapped Mrs. Prescott. “Go on, dear.” “He has been away till ten o’clock every evening, except Sunday, for two weeks. You know he is the book- keeper at Evans & Wilson.” “Yes, 1 know,” nodded the eager busybody. “They are decorators, and all that. Arthur said there was a lot of extra work, this being the rush spring sea- son. He says all hands have been working overtime. Well, I didn’t think 8o much of that, but he has acted strange and secretive. I've heard him | chuckle to himself, I've caught him smiling, as if he had some pleasant secret thought. He didn’t share it with me, and it worried me, it was so grandmother’s silver and jewelry out of the bank, filled her house with flowers, lights and people, and gave a final party for the advocate of suffrage. “A blow out” was her own phrase for it, she belng of the sort that speaks straight as it thinks. All this meant, of course, that she would be very busy. Mrs. Austell was charmed at the thought of coming. The other wom- an's name was Vanmere, her home a true colonial house, full of antiques. Moreover, Edith Vanmere herself had appeared very receptive. It would be only a less triumph for the cause to tive for life. It annoyed her a trifie to find that Miss Vanmere laid heavy commands oa Harleth; also, that he obeyed even when obedience took him from her presence. “Ed thinks she owns me—and I reckon she does come near it,” he explained to the visitor, who did her best to mask discomfiture with an en- gaging smile. The smile might have faded had she been able to read the Vanmere mind. Edith had seen through her—Edith would have none of her sort in the family. Moreover, if William Harleth was by way of he was man. Edith must save him. She was nearly as much interested in doing it as in the entirely new plum cake she was evolving for the party. Many schemes came to her. Ome by cne she turned them over in her mind and dismissed them as imprac- Then all in a flash the solu- simple it made her tlon came—so blush to think she had Gverlooked. it. "“_1:%‘.9 him.” Two bodies cannot occupy the same lain case!” smirked Mrs. Prescott confidently. space, not even when the bodies are ringers, the space a wedding ring. The only real salvation for Willlam Harleth, now that women were grown 80 bold, was a wedding ring, set fast | by law and goepel upon the right finger. Harleth was bidden “But this morning—oh, how shall 1 tell it! 1 took up his coat to iron out a stray wrinkle or two—he is so neat and tidy, you know. He jumped at me as if he was terribly startled. He handed back the coat to me, but not to dine with ing its imminence, notwithstanding Edith’s labors for it, the dinner was as perfect as a dinner could be. At the end there were samples of the delectable plum cake. The response it evoked from Harleth was a suffi- cient reward. . Later when the crowd had gathered, a crowd that held the best of all Highview, it gasped a bit to see Edith in trailing cloth of silver, softened with illusion and old lace, jewels gleaming upon & neck that was sin- gularly smooth and white, and nod- ding above hair pulled in wavy masses above a smooth brow. She looked what she was, a grande dame. But underneath the grandeur there was the same bubbling good humor, and sharp, clean-cut speech. Finery was no bar to her special ministrations when it came to serving supper. She made three of the richest men pres- ! shrieked. *Sve found out,” proceeded Mrs. Prescott, solemnly, “just where your | husband goes evenings.” “Oh, 1 ho-hope it's not in other fe- . female company!” ! “Just that,” pronounced Mrs. Pres cott definitely—"just exactly that.” | “Oh, 1 shall die!” declared Althea, | desperately. 1 “Don’t do it. Be brave. We'll trap him. We'll make him repent. The ! men are all the same. This lesson | will cure him.” | “Where does he go?” faltered Al- thea. | “You know that gay rich widow who ! has bought the big house on the hill?” “Mrs. Warrington? Yes.” \ “Well, he goes there.” “And he is such a handsome man!” | mourned poor Althea. “Under her wiles—" | “Yes, they say she is a dreadful creature,” interrupted Mrs. Prescotd | spicily. “The house is full of com-! pany all the time. She’s out for a new | husband, but she might leave respect- | able married men alone, say I!'” | “Oh, what shall I do?” lamented Al-| thea, in wild despair. ! “Why, I'll stay with you till the cul- prit comes home tonight. We'll con- front him together.” | Althea was so heartsick that she’ was ready to assent to any arrange- mert. She had a dreadful headache, but her visitor saw to it that a full meal was prepared for supper. Althea lay crying softly to herself on a couch; the old ogre sat rocking herself eagerly and gloating over the anticipated interview with the guilty husband. Suddenly Althea roused up and bent her ear and listened intently. There were subdued voices and the sound of slow trampling feet outside. There came a cautious tap at the door. Althea faced the village physi- cian. He looked serious. “Mrs. Lind,” he said gravely, “your husband—" Althea uttered a wild scream. She had glanced in affright past the speak- er, to view a litter borne by four men, and upon it, white and still, lay her husband. “Oh, he is dead—he is dead!” she “Not so bad as that, Mrs. Lind,” declared the doctor reasurringly. “He had a bad fall, but no bones are broken. It is only a few bruises and a severe shaking up. Mr. Lind is badly stunned, but we shall soon have him back in his clear senses.” “How did it happen—where?” Mrs. Prescott managed to inquire, as they placed the injured man in bed. “It was up at the big houvse on the hill,” was explained by one of the four men who had carried Arthur into the house. “Ah, I thought so!’ trouble-maker, with a smile on her face. “Yes,” broke in the doctor, “and Mrs. Warrington was most kind. She deplored the accident, the breaking of a ladder. She almost insisted on car- ing for the invalid herself.” “Naturally,” purred Mrs. Prescott. “You see,” added one of the men, “Mr. Lind had a chance to make a little extra money working with us nights. It's out of his line, and he made a misstep. Mrs. Warrington had never seen him until he was hurt. She's got a grand, good heart, for she bobbed the mysterious her will to stay there a week. Every day of the week brought her some touch with Harleth. Every day, also, in a manner deepened her determina- tion to snatch him a brand from the burning of his unbelief. Too wise, too feminine, to thrust herself upon Office Over Futch & Gentry Undertaking Co. hone: Office 94; Res. 291-Red e ——— BRIDGES' Wood Yard For good Stove and Fireplace WOOD CHEAP. Apply Fernleigh olnn, Cor. Missouri Ave.and Main St. - - PHONE 144 MOVED AGAIN!! 1 am nowl ocated in the room formerly occupied by the White Star Market un South Florida avenue. Thanking all my former pa- trons for past favors and so! liciting a share of your trade in my new location, I am vours truly H. O. DENNY PHONE 226. Prompt.Del. § b » W M She Had Fortune, tige of Family. SPPPEP him; too wily to bore him with her beliefs, she showed herself simply Position, the Pres- hand, that we should ask ourselves ent walt upon Mrs. Austell under her own direct supervision. When it came to the plum cake Mrs. Austell exclaimed: “This {8 not food—nectar, or maybe ambrosia, rather! Dear Miss Van- mere, life owes you something for it. 1 feel you are going to be one of us. Pray, pray tell me, what we shall de- mand for you when we come to our -0 Jown in reward for anything so uwe'll Trap Him” heavenly.” “Oh, nothing,” Edith said, 1aughing | until I saw him slyly remove a folded softly. plece of pink paper from the pocket “Nothing!” Mrs. Austell echoed. “You are unjust to yourself.” “I think not—you see 1 have my re- ward,” Edith answered saucily, though her color mounted. “You see, 1 told Billy—Mr. Harleth —tonight, I shouldn’t ever make any more of this cake until I made it for —my husband—and he proposed at onoce.” that he did not want me to see.” “Pink? that's bad!” croaked Mrs. Prescott, oracularly. “It's just breaking my heart!” went on Althea desperately. ‘“What do you suppose, Mrs. Prescott?” “I don’t suppose, I just strictly guess,” pronounced Mrs. Prescott, de- terminedly, “that your husband is spending his evenings with strange company. That pink paper was prob- ably a note from some lady. Now, don't you get hysterica), dear. I'm going to fathom this thing, and I'll show you how to bring this truant husband of yours to time, or know the reason why.” Poor Althea felt worse than she had before, after all the distracting insinu- ations of her visitor. She spent two hours in weeping, and two more in packing up her personal . Proper Point of View. Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture was praising in Wash- ington the agricultural school at Cor- nell, “It is a practical school,” he said. «]t wastes no time on useless things. It teaches practical and scientific farming. The school’s viewpoint re- minds me of the young farmer who was asked: ‘Which should you say— a setting hen or a sitting hen? «qi's jmmaterial which one says,’ g effects. the farmer answered. ‘But it's tre- o ™ mendously materlal, on the other dec:d;:.“ g0 home to mamma! she But the industrious Mrs. Prescott interrupted these arrangements. In she flounced, breathless and excited She dropped into a chair—triumph- when a hen cackles—Has she been laying, or is she lying?' " —— womanly charming, and so much so Gunboat a Hoodoo. ant. No ' |CE Harleth wondered no little how she| he oid gunboat Bennington, which| “Well, my dear,” she announced, could possibly want to be anything|was one of the early vessels of the | “I've found out something.” more. I ha West ve removed from V A seasoned celibate, Main street to my residence, 107 he was in some | her to be regarded as a hoodoo ship, new navy, and whose career caused “Oh, I do hope it's not something terrible!” Ea ways even wiser and wilier than she. | is reported from California to have| “Iy's serious,” declared Mrs. Pres- st Peachtree street, .Where In others he was a child, a 1amb | been sold to the Mexican government. | gott. “You know about your husband’s am prepared to furnishe the| oo "eor the sacrifice. But he did |t was while lying in San Diego bar-| gtaying away late nights?” trade with 1t is doubt- FISH AND WOOD I'am also agent for the celebrated Marvels Face Preparations. hone me and your wants in these lines will be quickly supplied R. 0. PARK. Phone 137-Black not know he was ready. ful if he would ever have in time but for the other woman. The other woman was, of things, an antagonist feature, with snapping blue eyes, a temper of her own. i | | Not in any D found out | boilers burst, killing five of the crew on the face | others. Mrs. Austell | for old junk, and the junk men, after had no need to fear, being pale, plump, uite undistinguished as to it and | dynamite. Harleth liked the temper better than box. Being thus & cook, heaven | weight. o ehe was essential to all the honor of Mrs. Austell. aid capacity—sbe had hor some years ago that ome of her “To my heart's sorrow!” quavered Althea patbetically. “It isn’t at the store.” “What!” “No. 1 have found out that the store has been dark and deserted every eve- ning for over two weeks.” Althea was appalled. She listened, while her visitor went on to give the result of her investigations in full. and seriously wounding a score of Soon afterward she was sold removing her fixtures, endeavored to blow out her interior portions with — Their Special Locality. anything else about her. They wers “Mom, the doctor says Cousin | Then she collapsed. The trouble cousins, distant ones, and he had |Sally bas the Shlnlhl. maker tried to console her. Then so‘ “ I[ “m “ m[ tyrannized over her from the das of | “Poor thing! when Althea had partially recovered pigtails. But in one way cle bad a| “Mom, are they in the roof of her | from her distraction, she fired a new Jazen Metal Shingles. gift—she could cook as few women |mouth?” bomb shell. Jomon Motal Colitng. can. Moreover, she was proud, not S B it Suttem. asbamed, of the gift, and delighted mn:.:,-' to exercise it. . | Cerrugated Awnings. William Harleth dined with her i i Sheet Metal Reofing. once & week, whenever he was at Ant's Remarkable Strength. \ Curse of Idieness. Metal “Brick” Siding. home. In between he had a way of | An ant can carry a grain of corn | .. N hadge of gentry, and Metal “Btene” Siding. d i in for fiveminute calls, | ten times the weight of its own body, & Acme Nestable Culverts. ropping Iy o some Plun- | while & horse and a man can carry 8 the bane of body and mind, the nurse l—-flm s Miveted Culverts. which ended commonly t least her ot rd. » Iy about equal to their own of naughtiness, the stepmother of dis- b derings of her pantry, or @ et i cipline; the chief author of all mis- chiefly reposes. chiet, one of the seven deadly sins, | the cushion upcn which the devil felt so sorry for his poor wife here.” Mrs. Prescott opened her eyes wide. Was her carefully reared fabric of meddlesome guesswork about to be rudely shattered? Althea had been bustling about mak- ing her husband comfortable. He was breathing more easily now and his eyes had opened several times. In moving his coat something fell from one of its pockets. Mrs. Prescott bounded forward like a hawk, “The pink piece of paper!” she whispered eagerly. “Oh, now we will know!” Yes, they soon knew. The little scrap bore a notation of payments Ar- thur was making on a diamond ring for Althea’s birthday. “Oh, the poor dear!’ sobbed the overcome Althea. “He risked his life to buy me a present! Go home!” she added sternly to Mrs. Prescott. And the busybody, with a sickly smile, passed out over the threshold of a home forever happy afterwards. Being Too Noble. Being too noble is dangerous busi- ness. It is the fault of most Sabbath moralities, and the cause of their ster- ility. When you have purged and bleached your morality into a collec- tion of abstract nouns, you have some- thing which is clean and white, but what else have you? Surely nothing comparable to the usefulness of that | wisdom which retains the odor of the | world, which shrinks from proclaiming ! superlatives, is sparing in grandiose | phrase, and rich in tumbled experi- ! ence. 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